E-cigarettes aren’t considered as risky as regular cigarettes, but researchers have found a clue that their flavorings may be bad for the heart.
Longtime smokers who can’t kick the addiction sometimes switch to e-cigarettes, in hopes of avoiding the cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco smoke.

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com)
It is a question that, unfortunately, is not an uncommon one to be posed to a Rabbi. When is it permitted to act upon a possible thief or con-man in our midst?
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Israeli bombed a Syrian military post in the country’s south on Monday, after Syria had fired at one of its fighter jets during a routine mission within Israeli airspace. The IDF strike killed a Syrian soldier and injured another.
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A Hawaii woman who was found alive in a forest on Maui island after going missing more than two weeks ago said she at times struggled not to give up.
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Moshe Ilovitz, 37, a resident of Mevo Modi’im, was last seen at the tziyun of the Rashbi in Meron on Friday night and officials now fear for his life.
Adding to the tragedy, forty homes were destroyed by fire in Mevo Modi’im and now, he remains missing as well.
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North Korea on Monday called U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton a “war monger” and “human defect” after he described its recent tests of short-range missiles as a violation of U.N.
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One of the most popular sites in Jerusalem is the kever of Dovid HaMelech, located on Har Tzion in the Old City. Jews are mispallel at the tziyun regularly, and Christians come to conduct tours and ceremonies – both out of respect for King David, which is holy to everyone, and because they have an AVoda Zara myth about the location.

Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Liberman said Monday that his party plans to keep insisting on the Chareidi draft law, regardless of the impasse it has caused in coalition talks ahead of the Wednesday deadline for the establishment of a new government.

An Eruv built in parts of Staten Island has been taken down.
The controversy started when residents of Westerleigh noticed thin gray PVC pipes were put up on utility poles around the neighborhood.
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The life of a four-year-old girl was saved on Sunday by the quick intervention of a first response paramedic from United Hatzalah.
At approximately 5:00PM on Sunday afternoon, Lahat Ma’ayan, a volunteer paramedic from United Hatzalah who resides in the distant Kibbutz Beit Nir located in the Lachish region just north of Beit Guvrin, was dispatched to a playground on the Kibbutz.